In the context of most discussions on this site, "confidence" is the probability that a guess is correct. For example:
"Confidence interval" is just confidence that something is within a certain range.
You should also be aware that in the context of frequentism (most scientific papers), these terms have different and somewhat confusing technical definitions.
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